Sophie Lourdes Knight

Overview
Sophie Lourdes Knight
Sophie Lourdes Knight creates work to be experienced as unique psychological spaces, existing somewhere between narrative and emotional ideas to deconstruct normative reality and space.
Knight's work attempts to disrupt the hierarchical economy of value within the world of objects. By placing overlooked, everyday items alongside spectacular things of beauty she establishes them as on a level plain; both objects are prescribed as having the same inherent value. Through this process she breathes new life into objects. Inspired by the epic texts of magical realism that she reads, quotidian, banal objects are imbued with supernatural energy and spirit. They transcend their physical limitations and rise to become religious idols or spiritual totems. Knight's disrupted objects often inhabit spaces in barren interiors and exteriors marked by cool greys and soft whites. This allows each previously disdained and ignored object to take centre stage and fully occupy the viewer's mind, if only for a moment. Knight explains that her practice allows her to "strive for something outside myself yet grounded in myself." Her work attempts to locate the "dualities and contradictions" in everyday life "so that nothing is safe yet everything has its place."
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Sophie Lourdes Knight

B. Mountain View, California, USA, Based in London, UK

 

Education

MFA, Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK 2022
BFA, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA 2014


Solo Exhibitions

2018 'Everything Counts' Zevitas Marcus Los Angeles
2018 'Steady Plane' Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston
2017 'Soft Shell' OGAARD, Oakland
2015 'Catcher Signals' Bunker Projects, Pittsburgh

Group Exhibitions

2022 'Split Open' The Split Gallery, London
2022 'We're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat' Slash Arts, London
2022 'Friends with Benefits Vol.2' Safehouse 1&2, London
2022 'I'll Be Your Mirror, Paint Talk' Alice's Oyster Bar, London
2022 'Dream, Baby, Dream, Paint Talk' Fitzrovia Gallery, London
2022 'Why Don't You Dance?' ASC Gallery, London
2022 'Snakes on a Picture Plane' UK Mexican Arts Society, London
2021 'La Charogne, La Charade, Sophie Lourdes Knight & Julian Farade' Double Séjour, Paris, France
2021 'Luminous Bodies' Cyprus College of Art, Lemba, Cyprus
2021 'To Be A Shell' Queensrollahouse, London, UK
2021 'The First Swing of the Bat' Paint Talk, Gallery 46, London, UK
2020 'Tides Always Turn' AucArt, London, UK
2020 'With Love' Paint Talk Presents, UK
2020 'HEXALOGY' PADA, Barreiro, Portugal
2020 'EXH 04' Floorr Exhibitions, UK
2020 'Made in Paint 2020' Golden Foundation, New Berlin, NY
2020 'Savage 2020' The Crypt Gallery, St Pancras, London, UK
2020 'Slade Runner' ASC Gallery, London, UK
2019 'A High Hang' Eccelston Project Space, London, UK
2019 'Home' MSMR, London, UK
2019 'Deepest Night' Esqueleto, Los Angeles, CA
2019 'Of Course, I Haven't Forgotten!' Warbling, 155A Artists Space, London, UK
2019 '45 RPM, 45 YEARS OF SOUTHERN EXPOSURE' Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA
2018 'Wells Art Contemporary Awards' Bishop's Palace, Wells, Somerset, UK
2018 'Connect & Collect' San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
2018 'Got it for Cheap, pt.2' Gallery, Oakland, CA
2018 '250th Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2018' Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
2018 'Blue-42: Sophie Lourdes Knight & Ethan Caflisch' XXXI, New York City, NY
2018 'RELAY 2' Slidespace 123, Mills College, Oakland, CA (co-curator)
2018 'Summer Survey' Traywick Contemporary, Berkeley, CA
2017 'Monster Drawing Rally' Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
2017 'RELAY, CTRL + SHFT' Oakland, CA (co-curator)
2017 'Small' Shy Projects, Paris, France
2016 'Monster Drawing Rally' Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
2016 'Sophie Lourdes Knight & Chiyomi McKibbin' Domain, Oakland, CA
2016 'Correspondencia (Correspondence), CTRL + SHFT' Oakland, CA (curated by Marcela Pardo Ariza, Nick Johnson & Ángel Rafael Vázquez-Concepción)
2016 'Introductions' Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (juried by Jim Osman, curated by Katerina LanFranco)
2015 'Crank, Southern Exposure' San Francisco, CA (juried by Lorelei Stewart & Gabriela Monroy)
2015 'Botanica' The Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA (juried by Ken Harman & MacKenzie Stevens)
2015 'Salon Des Refuses 2015' Happenstance Gallery, Hackey, London
2014 'Art Lab Nightlife' California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA
2014 'Brew, The Post Office Gallery, Oakland, CA
2013 '20 Jay St, Brooklyn' Guitar Shop Gallery, Oakland, CA
2013 'Cinesthesia: An Encounter in Painting and Cinema' Carmen M. Christensen Production Stage, San Francisco, CA
2011 'Honors' The Post Office Gallery, Oakland, CA


Residencies, Awards & Grants

2021 Grampus Heritage & Cyprus College of Art August Residency, Cyprus
2020 Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant Awardee, Montreal, Canada
2020 PADA Studios Residency, Barrerio, Lisbon, Portugal
2019 Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant Awardee, Montreal, Canada
2019 Golden Foundation Residency, New Berlin, NY
2018 Tosa Studio Award Nominee, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA
2013 AICAD New York Studio Residency Program, Brooklyn, NY